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Xbox Cloud Gaming Invite Links

Xbox Cloud Gaming Adds Invite Links, Expands Stream Your Own Game Collection

Xbox Cloud Gaming players can now invite other Game Pass Ultimate members to join their…

Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft Copilot Drops Usage Restrictions On its Free Think Deeper and Voice Features

Microsoft is making the consumer version of its free Copilot AI assistant more competitive today…

YouTube mid-roll ads

YouTube Will Soon Make Mid-roll Ads Less Bothersome

Google will soon make changes to mid-roll ads on YouTube to make them less interruptive…

Xbox Fable

Xbox Exclusive Fable Has Been Delayed to 2026

Craig Duncan, the new head of Xbox Game Studios announced today that the much-anticipated reboot…

Opera Developer now integrates with Slack, Discord, and Bluesky

Opera Adds Bluesky, Discord, and Slack to Sidebar

Six weeks after it tested this functionality in Opera Developer, Opera has added Bluesky, Discord,…

Fortnite character on an iPhone

Apple Exec Admits 27 Percent App Store Fee was Likely a Violation of Court Order

Long-time Apple executive Phil Schiller admitted in court that the 27 percent fee Apple imposed…

Adobe Photoshop iPhone

Adobe Launches New Photoshop App on iPhone

Adobe is launching today a new Photoshop app on iPhone that provides access to core…

Gemini Code Assist for Individuals in Visual Studio Code

Gemini Code Assist is Now Free for Individuals

Google announced today that it is making its Gemini Code Assist AI coding assistant free…

Anthropic 3.7 Claude

Anthropic’s First Reasoning AI Model is Now Available

Anthropic today announced the immediate availability of Claude 3.7 Sonnet, its first reasoning AI model,…

Core Office apps are now free on Windows

You Can Now Use Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for Free on Windows (Updated)

Microsoft has quietly made free, ad-supported versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint available for free…

Online Accounts 2025: Single Sign-In (SSO)
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Online Accounts 2025: Single Sign-In (SSO) (Premium)

As part of an ongoing effort to reduce my reliance on Big Tech services that…

Gmail

Google to Replace SMS With QR Codes For Gmail Authentication

In the coming months, Google is planning to replace text messages with more secure QR…

Apple $500 billion US investments

Apple to Invest $500 Billion in the US Over the Next Four Years

Apple announced today that it will invest over $500 billion and hire 20,000 new employees…

It's alive! The Unix V2 "beta"

Researcher Recovers Oldest Machine-Readable Version of Unix Yet

A researcher has recovered the oldest known machine-readable version of Unix yet, an early Unix…

Inside an Azure datacenter

Microsoft Reportedly Canceled Some Planned Datacenter Capacity

Microsoft still plans to spend at least $80 billion on AI infrastructure in its current…

Tabs UI is coming together
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.NETpad 2025: Building Out the Tabs (Premium)

Supporting tabs adds complexity to .NETpad, but I've successfully merged my backend code for that…

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